ANTH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Landscape Archaeology, Palynology, Zooarchaeology
13 Oct 2016
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Tuesday, october 11, 2016: done a lot in television shows. Tree rings scale and isotopes: trees grow dependent on climate can get an idea of environment at the time when the tree was growing, can infer impact of environmental changes on people. E. g. historical hurricanes (isotopic analysis different type of. Palynology: microbotanical study of pollen grains for chronology and oxygen than in normal rain) environmental reconstruction. Microbotanical analysis: remains can be identified by species, quantified, and microcarbon dated, remains retrieved by screening and flotation, seeds are extremely identifiable, when you can find them (blend into soil) Zooarchaeology animal species in a region reflect climate, relationships w/ humans, historical change. Impact of the environment: development of bipedalism. Africa dried out/thinned out, less big trees, bipedalism was more efficient for walking on flat ground one interpretation. Reconstructing diet: residue analysis from potsherds/stone tools, evidence of food processing, human skeletal evidence.
